WET #42: Strange Bouquet September 7, 1999 WET 42: Strange Bouquet This bouquet (except for stems) is made completely from the one real fish image Ron served up in WET 42. The blossom's basic petal was shaped by distorting the fish twice with horizontal perspective: once all the way to the left, then once all the way to the right. I then used the Hue/Saturation/Lightness to make several colored copies, each one 10 more on the the Hue setting. I added 10% uniform noise to each one. Then I put the various copies on a large transparent image (nose centered), rotating each 36 degrees further than the last so they were evenly spaced. I deformed this image 3 times with the "circle" deformation, then place 3 copies (at different angles, one mirrored) onto a larger transparent image, drop shadowing each as I placed it. I made the stems on another layer using bezier curves and drop shadows. The leaves were added on a third layer, and were made from the basic petal fish, colorized then flattened with horizontal perspective at 100% twice. I rotated this original leaf and "bent" the tip various ways to get a range of leaves. I dropshadowed each leaf after I positioned it on the stem. I added a black background layer and saved the whole thing as a psp file. I then made a merged copy, reduced by 50% "smart" and used unsharp mask to sharpen the copy a bit. Then I made mats and a frame, using Fibonacci numbers with black and two other colors picked up from the image. I buttonized the frame and that's that! Everything on this page was done in Paint Shop Pro 5, using only the original filters and functions supplied with the program.

This is a smaller version of the original image posted for us to use. Thank you!

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This image was created using Paint Shop Pro 5, especially for the WET #42 project.
It is my original creation based on the original WET image obtained from Ron on-line
through alt.binaries.comp-graphics.
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by Diane at
Five Acre Graphics